Evelyn Joan Jeanetta Alexander

Female10 October 1914–22 July 2007

Brief Life History of Evelyn Joan Jeanetta

Evelyn Joan Jeanetta Alexander was born on 10 October 1914, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada as the daughter of William L Alexander and Mildred Fallon. She married Earl George Leatham in 1939, in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Brentwood, Allegheny, Pennsylvania, United States in 1950. She died on 22 July 2007, in Whatcom, Washington, United States, at the age of 92, and was buried in Lopez Union Cemetery, Lopez, San Juan, Washington, United States.

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Family Time Line

Earl George Leatham
1909–1976
Evelyn Joan Jeanetta Alexander
1914–2007
Marriage: 1939
Robert Earl Leatham
1948–1948
Lynne Ann Leatham
1950–1976

Sources (6)

  • Evelyn J Leatham, "United States 1950 Census"
  • Legacy NFS Source: Evelyn Joan Jeanetta Alexander - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Evelyn Joan Jeanetta Alexander
  • Evelyn J Leatham, "Find A Grave Index"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    1939Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  • Children (2)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (1)

    World Events (8)

    1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress

    Age 2

    Jeannette Pickering Rankin became the first woman to hold a federal office position in the House of Representatives, and remains the only woman elected to Congress by Montana.

    1916 · Boeing Aircraft

    Age 2

    The Boeing Aircraft was named and created by William Boeing. The first two planes were Bluebill and Mallard and the first flight was July 15, 1916. Boeing aircrafts made their debut during WWI. 

    1940

    Age 26

    Galloping Gertie is the reference used to describe the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. It opened on July 1, 1940 four months later it no longer existed. On November 7, 1940 the wind gusts came up to 40 miles an hour causing the bridge to twist and vibrate violently before it collapsed into Puget Sound. The only victim of the bridge collapsing was a three-legged paralyzed dog named Tubby whose owner tried to rescue him from the car but he wouldn’t go with him.

    Name Meaning

    Scottish, English, German, and Dutch: from the personal name Alexander, classical Greek Alexandros, which probably originally meant ‘repulser of men (i.e. of the enemy)’, from alexein ‘to repel’ + andros, genitive of anēr ‘man’. Its popularity in the Middle Ages was due mainly to the Macedonian conqueror, Alexander the Great (356–323 BC ) - or rather to the hero of the mythical versions of his exploits that gained currency in the so-called Alexander Romances. The name was also borne by various early Christian saints, including a patriarch of Alexandria (c. 250–326 AD ), whose main achievement was condemning the Arian heresy. The Gaelic form of the personal name is Alasdair, which has given rise to a number of Scottish and Irish patronymics, for example McAllister . Alexander is a common personal name in Scotland, often representing an Anglicized form of the Gaelic name. In North America, the English form of the surname has absorbed cognates from other languages, e.g. Spanish Alejandro , Italian Alessandro , Arabic or Assyrian/Chaldean Iskandar and Iskander , and their derivatives, e.g. Greek patronymic Alexandropoulos.

    Jewish: from the adopted personal name Alexander (see 1 above) or shortened from the eastern Ashkenazic (originally Slavic) patronymics Aleksandrovich or Alexandrowicz.

    History: A number of Scotch-Irish families of this name landed at New York in the early 18th century. By 1746, six of them were established in NC. Others came in through Philadelphia, for example Archibald Alexander, who came from Londonderry in northern Ireland in 1736 and established himself in VA. — The Revolutionary general William Alexander (1726–83) was always known as ‘Lord Sterling’ to his compatriots, although his claim to the title was denied by the College of Arms in London. His father, James Alexander, was a Jacobite who had fled to New York after the failure of the Jacobite rising in 1715. The claim to the title arose in connection with their ancestor Sir William Alexander, a courtier and poet at the court of King James VI of Scotland (James I of England), who created him Earl of Stirling in 1633.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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